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• Inclusion in Economics: Interview with Sole Martinez Peria
• Good Jobs for Young People: A Policy Imperative to Reduce Inequality
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• She, Robot: Women's Employment in the Face of Automation
• The Snowball Effect: How the Rich Get Richer
• Inequality and the Conduct of Monetary Policy
• Falling off the Ladder: Why So Few Female Economics Professors?
• The Perspective from Home
• The Annual Research Conference 2019: Celebrating 20 Years of Academic Excellence
• Reading the Sea Leaves: What Do Ship Movements Tell Us about International Trade?

Featured documents

• Q&A: Seven Questions about the Relationship between Country Finance and Governance

  Economists have studied the relationship between the quality of institutions and growth extensively (North 1990). In contrast, the relationship between the quality of institutions and financial flows has been studied less. Because low-income countries depend heavily on external financing flows and...

• Rating Through-The-Cycle: What Does the Concept Imply for Rating Stability and Accuracy?

  Credit rating agencies face a difficult tradeoff between delivering both accurate and stable ratings. While ratings should provide the most accurate estimate of the corresponding default risk of an underlying asset, users of ratings often prefer that they do not change too frequently. Rating...

• Oil Exporters at the Crossroads: It Is High Time to Diversify

  The prevailing growth model for most oilexporting countries has left them vulnerable to a sustained decline in oil prices and has resulted in a decline in income per capita relative to the United States. To achieve sustainable growth, oil exporters need to create a dynamic and diversified tradables ...

• Interview With Gita Gopinath
• Technological Change And The Future Of Work
• Interview with Antonio Spilimbergo, the Research Department's New Deputy Director
• Dismal Employment Growth in EU Countries: The Role of Corporate Balance Sheet Repair and Dual Labor Markets

  Large differences among European Union countries in postcrisis employment growth to a large extent were driven by the need to adjust corporate balance sheets, which had greatly deteriorated during the boom years in some countries but not in others. To close the large gaps between saving and...

• Q&A: Seven Questions on Fintech

  The IMF recently published a paper on the potential effects of fintech on the financial sector and how regulation should adapt: "Fintech and Financial Services: Initial Considerations," co-authored by Dong He, Ross Leckow, Vikram Haksar, Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli, Nigel Jenkinson, Mikari...

• Our Common Energy Future
• Q&A: Seven Questions on Financial Interconnectedness